Yes usually. However ruby doesn't necessarily use single characters (e.g. {/})to indicate the start/end of blocks, so vim doesn't know how to get to the beginni

Yes usually. However ruby doesn't necessarily use single characters (e.g. {/})to indicate the start/end of blocks, so vim doesn't know how to get to the beginning/end of a block. N.B. When I say blocks I mean the standard understanding of blocks i.e. the code between two curly braces, not ruby blocks which are roughly equivalent to anonymous functions.